This news is the kind that seems big at first, then you think about it and say what does it matter to my life, but it is big. Its importance will probabbly not be clear in our lifetime.
After almost 30 years of arguing that a black hole swallows up everything that falls into it, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking backpedaled Thursday. In doing so, he lost one of the most famous bets in recent scientific history.The world-famous author of a "Brief History of Time" said he and other scientists had gotten it wrong —the galactic traps may in fact allow information to escape.
Maybe this is where Deja Vu comes from? After all, they seem to suggest that somehow bot past and future could be seen from these black holes. My own personal feeling is that time's dimension is far less inflexible than we know, but I'm tax law student, so what do I know?
Posted by: Joel B. at July 17, 2004 09:05 AM (Permalink)I'm openminded enough to accept that maybe time is not as it appears to us but I have difficulty philosophically with the idea that we can see the future, as if it is already determined. Then again, when I read A Brief History of Time, it did not seem to be that there was only one future, only that we perceived time that way.
Posted by: Justene at July 17, 2004 09:35 AM (Permalink)Ahh, one of the most difficult questions of all time, if the future can be seen than how can it be freely chosen. I completely agree in that I understand none of it, but I have no doubt that someday I will.
Posted by: Joel B. at July 17, 2004 10:07 AM (Permalink)Maybe Asimov had something with his "psychohistory" notion in the Foundation books. Individual decisions can surely change the immediate environment from following any given path to the future, but certain macro-scale trends may well be foreordained and difficult if not impossible to avert. But my view would always lean heavily toward "difficult" rather than impossible.
It was widely believed during the 1980s that a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and USSR was inevitable. Personally, I never saw it that way but apparently even Reagan thought, at times, that the worst was bound to happen.
Just goes to show, I guess.
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